Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Live simply so others may simply live.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

All of us are products of our childhood.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.